Guatemala
Amidst violence, Guatemala heads for Sept. elections
July 22, 2011Guatemala is the second most violent country in the Western Hemisphere (after Colombia) and the election campaign is shaping up to be violent also. Iit is not clear to what degree poor and working class Guatemalans,...
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World Notes: Israel, Philippines, Guatemala – and more
March 10, 2011International news about Israel, Philippines, Guatemala, Native American women, Japan and the Cuban Five.
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World Notes: Cuba, Gaza and more
December 6, 2010From workers striking in Korea to Spanish complicity in U.S. war crimes, what's going on in the world.
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Organized crime: part of the system in Guatemala
August 30, 2010While thousands of Guatemalans go hungry, everything indicates that the country's crime wave is part and parcel of a neoliberal effort to weaken the state as much as possible.
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Organized crime: Part of the system in Guatemala
August 27, 2010GUATEMALA CITY -- Tens of thousands of Guatemalans are going hungry and hundreds of thousands of children suffer from malnutrition and even die of hunger, thanks to a system that keeps them submerged in extreme poverty.
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